Opinion

Partnership's Chris Horlick says today's headline figures that 20,000 people are selling their homes to fund care is just the tip of the iceberg.

The RDR will now be subject to a full Parliamentary debate, but do not expect the FSA or its successor organisation to backtrack on any of its major proposals.

To herald structured products as 'win-win' for clients except in the most extreme market conditions is highly misleading, Worldwide Financial Planning's Peter McGahan says.

So Roger Guy is ‘retiring’ from day-to-day fund management and CIO Dominic Rossi is off, barely five minutes after it seems he started.

Many cutting remarks have been made about AIFA's apparently-limp challenge to Keydata's classification as an intermediary. Now a lawyer appears to have summed them all up rather succinctly.

This week: Daphne Gu from FundQuest in Boston on why ETFs are not all created alike

Peter Lawrence spent 30 years in IT but last year launched his own IFA. Professional Adviser has been tracking his progress. This month he goes back to the examination room

Paul Etheridge, chairman of Prestwood Group, explains why advisers who believe the RDR presents the biggest challenge to the industry would do well to think again...

As NEST looks to recruit fund managers for a range of mandates, the Financial Times' David Stevenson asks if they have got their asset allocation model right.

A diary article in yesterday's Independent caught my eye. The headline: 'Flogging insurance is so undignified'.